Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Complete or partial muscle paralysis, often accompanied by loss of sensation and uncontrollable body movements or tremors.
- noun A weakening or debilitating influence.
- noun An enfeebled condition or debilitated state thought to result from such an influence.
- noun A fit of strong emotion marked by the inability to act.
- transitive verb To paralyze.
- transitive verb To deprive of strength.
- transitive verb To make helpless, as with fear.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A weakening, suspension, or abolition of muscular power or sensation; paralysis. See
paralysis . - Palsied.
- To paralyze; affect with palsy or as with palsy; deprive of action or energy.
- To suffer from palsy; be affected with palsy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
- noun (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See
paralysis . - noun paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it.
- noun See Writer's cramp, under
Writer . - noun (Med.) paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait; now called
parkinsonism , orParkinson's disease .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective colloquial
Chummy ,friendly . - noun pathology Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
- verb To
paralyse , either completely or partially.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor
- noun loss of the ability to move a body part
- verb affect with palsy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My girlfriend, in a wheelchair due to cerebral palsy, is one of the kindest souls I have ever met and makes her more beautiful to me than any string of pageant contestants.
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Living with cerebral palsy is a continuous process of exploration.
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For some people, a child with cerebral palsy is a tragedy.
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For some people, a child with cerebral palsy is a tragedy.
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Cerebral palsy is a muscle motor disorder that is the result of damage to the central nervous system.
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And so it was that not only did I catch palsy from the old veteran, but the whole park caught palsy.
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The palsy is a disease in which the physician's skill commonly fails; it was therefore a great evidence of his faith in the power of Christ, to come to him for a cure, which was above the power of natural means to effect.
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Excerpted and condensed from Glenda’s recently released autobiography ‘I’ll Do It Myself’, in which she intimately shares her life story to show others cerebral palsy is not a death sentence, but rather a life sentence.
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Unless I’ve missed a memo in the last forty years, cerebral palsy is still a non-progressive, lifelong neurological disorder.
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I once developed Bell's palsy, which is a paralysis of the face.
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